Improvement in combined lever and crank motion



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELIAS N OTT, OF EARL TOWNSHIP, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT INV COMBINED LEVER AND CRANK MOTION.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 3S, l 76, dated April14, 1863.

the same time the same motion can be employed in connection with otherdomestic machinery; and I do hereby declare that the following is a fulland exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making a partof this specification, in which- Figure lis aperspectivevview of its construction and operation. Fig. 2 shows one ofthe wire-stretching eyed and screw-cut bolts with its bar c. Fig. 3 is aview of its application over an extended field.

The object of this invention is to obviate the labor of pumping by handto supply the demand of water for cattle or domestic purposes on thefarm, and by means of a simple arrangement, at a triing cost, to keepthe pump in constant motion, regulating the discharge of water orstopping it, at pleasure. My method of effecting this is to avail myselfof a small stream of water, (found on almost every farm, more or lessremote from the dwelling.) In this I place a water-wheel, Q, having acrankarm on one side. Near this I erect a slotted post, W, for thereception of the oscillating beam N, held by a pivot at its center in W.This beam has a projecting arm, O, and a rod, P, connecting it with thecrank on the water-wheel, thus operating the beam N, giving it a rockingmotion, which motion is imparted to a similar beam, I), on its pivot inthe slotted post E, placed near the pump, by means of the stretchedwiresL L2, attached, respectively, to the upper and lower end of theoscillating beams D N. In order to tighten the wires, one end is securedin a plug with a broad head, while the other end is affixed to the eyeof the screw-bolt t, Fig. 2, and by means of a nut, c, irmly screwed upand stretched at pleasure. The wire is supported at certain intervals bymeans of vibrating wire links M M2, held by a pivot on a post or pole,K, as shown by Figll. Any required number of these poles and supportinglinks will make but a slight resistance to the power of the water-wheel,there being no friction of any account to overcome by this vibratinglink arrangement, so that the stretched wires will cause both beams tooscillate in unison. To the beam D there is a rod, c, above, connectedwith the shaft B on the pumping rocker-crank. This shaft B has a seriesof holes, and passes through a slot in the arm C, by means of which thestroke of the pump can be regulated according to the supply of waterdemanded, or unshipped altogether, when the pump can be operated by handby means of a rod, Y, on the same rocker-crank, to which the rod Z issuspended. The socalled rocker-crank,77 with its arms Y B,

' crosses the top of the pump in a short curve,

the bucket-rod is affixed, operating the bucketrod the same as when thecommon pump-handle is employed. To the lower end of the beam anabundance of water. For this purpose dog, y

horse, and water powers have been employed but when the water-power wasremote from the dwelling, I am not aware that such power has beenapplied in the manner herein set forth.

The simplicity and comparative cheapness and eiicacy of this arrangementis practically established, and has proved highly satisfactory to myselfand all who have witnessed its operation. i

I am aware that, so far as the water-wheel, oscillating beams, andconnecting-rods and cranks are concerned there is no novelty; nor do Ideem such as a part of my invention. What I deem novel is thearrangement and the application of these oscillating beams,connecting-wires, and the pumping or rocker shaft crank and its arms, asalso the connectingarm F 5 that while the pumping is not interferedwith, butter may be churned, clothes washed, &c., all by the same powerand motion at one and the same time, thus affording au additionaladvantage of great utility on a with the arms() F, (on arm or beam D,)for Working the pump and other appliances at one and the same time, asherein specified, for the purposes mentioned.

ELIAS NOTT. Witnesses SAML. H. SIDES, E. G. GROFF.

